musl - musl - an implementation of the standard library for Linux-based systems

diff --git a/src/unistd/alarm.c b/src/unistd/alarm.c
index 2e3263ac..a5e0c822 100644
--- a/src/unistd/alarm.c
+++ b/src/unistd/alarm.c

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@

unsigned alarm(unsigned seconds)

{

- struct itimerval it = { .it_value.tv_sec = seconds };

- __syscall(SYS_setitimer, ITIMER_REAL, &it, &it);

- return it.it_value.tv_sec + !!it.it_value.tv_usec;

+ struct itimerval it = { .it_value.tv_sec = seconds }, old = { 0 };

+ setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &it, &old);

+ return old.it_value.tv_sec + !!old.it_value.tv_usec;

}